Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak

Dhanakpur village farmers Thakur Jaswant and Dhanraj Singh are brothers. Their younger sister Madhumati aka Madhu was dumped and impregnated by Ratan, the younger son of Thakur Raghuvir Singh (Arun Mathur) from a rich Rajput family. The family refuses Madhu's marriage to Ratan, who's engaged to another girl, after he denies the allegations made by Jaswant. But his mother later tells Raghuvir she secretly heard Madhu tell Ratan the allegations some time earlier outside their house and begs him to marry them. He immediately refuses telling her an unmarried pregnant girl can't ruin their family's honour by becoming their daughter-in-law. Jaswant leaves the village to sell their farm and see if they can move to Delhi where their other sister Parvati lives with her husband Bhagwandas and son Shyam, when he realizes the huge humiliation and shame their family will get there because Madhu's lover will marry someone else especially after he impregnated her. Saddened by losing her lover and the dishonour he will cause her family, Madhu commits suicide. Frustrated, Dhanraj brings her body at Ratan's wedding and kills him. He is jailed. The two families are now enemies. Jaswant moves to Delhi with Dhanraj's wife Saroj and son, Raj at Parvati's house, runs a clothing business with Bhagwandas and reaches good; he also raises Raj.

The film marked the directorial debut of Mansoor Khan, son of Nasir Hussain as well as the acting debut of Mansoor's cousin Aamir Khan. The film was a tale of unrequited love and parental opposition, with Khan portraying Raj, a "clean-cut, wholesome boy-next-door".[6] The plot was a modern-day take on classic tragic romance stories such as Layla-Majnun, Heer-Ranjha,[5] and Romeo-Juliet.[6]

Mansoor recalled that his father Nasir wanted to launch Aamir as a leading actor and got convinced that Mansoor would direct the film after watching his telefilm.[13][14] The film was initially titled Nafrat Ke Waaris before returning to original title.[15]

Nasir initially wanted to cast Shammi Kapoor and Sanjeev Kumar as the family patriarchs, but Mansoor refused to work with them as they were 'too senior.'[16]

For the film's marketing, Aamir was involved in promoting the film. He set up an outdoor ad campaign, which was a faceless poster that said, "Who is Aamir Khan? Ask the girl next door!" With the help of his brother-in-law Raj Zutshi, Khan also went around putting up posters on auto-rickshaws across Mumbai.[17]

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The soundtrack contains five songs composed by duo Anand–Milind, and songs written by veteran Majrooh Sultanpuri. All the tracks were sung by Udit Narayan, who sang for Aamir Khan and Alka Yagnik, who sang for Juhi Chawla.

Pancham (R. D. Burman) was to compose the soundtrack, but director Mansoor Khan wanted a young music director. That's how Anand–Milind, who had worked with him earlier on this tele-film, secured this project.[13] Mansoor selected Narayan to sing all songs because he felt that his voice would suit Aamir.[13]

The biggest hit song from the album was "Papa Kehte Hain".[19] Majroosh saab (as he is fondly known) wrote the song at the age of 70. Sung by Narayan and picturised on Aamir Khan, the full title of the song is "Papa Kehte Hain Bada Naam Karega",[20] which translates to "My dad says that I'll make him proud!".[21]

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak was the best-selling Bollywood music soundtrack album of 1988, outselling Tezaab, the second best-seller,[22] which itself had sold over 8 million units.[23] Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak became one of the best-selling Indian soundtrack albums of the 1980s.[22] It was the first major hit album released by the record label T-Series.[11] Prior to release, Nasir Hussain reportedly sold the film's music rights to T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar for only ₹400,000[24] ($30,000).[25]

At the 34th Filmfare Awards, Anand–Milind won the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, Majrooh Sultanpuri was nominated for Best Lyricist for "Papa Kehte Hain", and Udit Narayan won Best Male Playback Singer for "Papa Kehte Hain".

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak became a golden jubilee hit after running for 50 weeks.[28] It earned a domestic net collection of ₹50 million[2] ($4 million),[25] and was declared a blockbuster, becoming the third highest-grossing film of 1988, behind Tezaab and Shahenshah.[29] Adjusted for inflation, the domestic net collection of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak is equivalent to more than ₹1.4 billion (US$21.5 million) in 2017.[lower-alpha 2]

The film was also released in China, in 1990.[31] It was Aamir Khan's first film released in China, two decades before he became a household name there in the 2010s after 3 Idiots (2009).[32]

The film was remade in Telugu as Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi, which marked the debut for Pawan Kalyan. It was also remade in Bangladesh as Keyamat Theke Keyamat in 1993, marked as the debut of renowned Bangladeshi duo Salman Shah and Moushumi. It was also remade in Sinhala as Dalu lana gini starring Damith Fonseka and Dilhani Ekanayake. It was also remade in Nepali as Yug dekhi yug samma, which marked the debut of Nepalese actor Rajesh Hamal.

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak proved to be a major commercial success, catapulting both Khan and Chawla to superstardom.[35] It received 8 Filmfare Awards including a Best Male Debut for Khan and Best Female Debut award for Chawla. [36] The film has since attained cult status.[37] Bollywood Hungama credits it as a "path-breaking and trend-setting film" for Indian cinema.[38]

Gautam Chintamani's book Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak: The Film That Revived Hindi Cinema (2016) credits the film with revitalizing Hindi cinema.[9] In the late 1980s, Hindi cinema was experiencing a decline in box office turnout, due to increasing violence, decline in musical melodic quality, and rise in video piracy, leading to middle-class family audiences abandoning theaters. Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak's blend of youthfulness, wholesome entertainment, emotional quotients and strong melodies is credited with luring family audiences back to the big screen.[38][9] The film is credited with having "reinvented the romantic musical genre" in Bollywood.[7] Chintamani credits it as one of the most important films of the last three decades. It was a milestone in the history of Hindi cinema, setting the template for Bollywood musical romance films that defined Hindi cinema in the 1990s.[8] In a 2000 survey by Indolink.com, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak was ranked the best film of the 80's.[39]

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